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To: Caesar Soze
No different than certain Republicans (not you, but you know who I mean) agitating to bring back the draft as some kind of social experiment. "We need to get the kids away from their PlayStations and Nintendos and teach them how hard it was in 1943! That'll straighten them out! Never mind family structures, media influences, or public morality, the draft is good for what ails ya!"

The draft, as a descendant of the militia and the fyrd, exists to levy troops for military purposes only. It's not there to provide jobs to youths, to instill values, to beautify the environment, or to increase social cohesion. It exists -- when it does -- to provide a surge of man-power for the enterprise of breaking things and killing people.

Well said. I'm all for the draft being an option in a time of military emergency, not as a back door to turning America into a modern Sparta or introducing something akin to mandatory AmeriCorps service. America wasn't founded as a regimented society under the control of the central government. We may need the draft again, but certainly not for the sake of Iraq, where the administration's goal is greater Iraqi self-reliance. This is just a transparent political ploy by Rangel, one which his fellow Democrats (especially those who fought against the draft in the Vietnam era) should be ashamed of.

284 posted on 11/19/2006 2:00:37 PM PST by Polonius (It's called logic, it'll help you.)
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To: Polonius
This is just a transparent political ploy by Rangel, one which his fellow Democrats (especially those who fought against the draft in the Vietnam era) should be ashamed of.

LOL -- while the action is certainly shameful, I doubt that the Democrats are capable of feeling shame.

416 posted on 11/20/2006 7:29:59 AM PST by steve-b (It's hard to be religious when certain people don't get struck by lightning.)
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